361. Birch School, 1960s?
L-R 1. Carol Ratcliffe, 2. Shirley Coe, 3. Linda Hilden, 4. Tim Hewett. The children had received a reply from Downing Street after ...
Date: 1960s
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362. Birch Church, now undergoing repairs, has an unusual yet picturesque look about it with its steeple in splints. Undated newspaper cutting.
Date: cFebruary 1961
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363. Birch Church. From a drawing made in February 1849.
Great and Little Birch had each a separate church, but Little Birch Church was disused long ago. Its ...
Date: February 1849
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364. The pastoral past of Birch.
These rare pictures of a bygone Birch evoke exactly the sort of world that Thomas Hardy captured in his ...
Date: 6 August 1982
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365. It's August 1904, harvesting at Hill Farm.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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366. A country home in every sense. Humphreys Cottage and its resident Mr Horne.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: c1904
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367. A job for all the family. Peapicking in 1904.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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368. Church Cottages - virtually unchanged over the years. The two ladies are believed to be Mrs G. Smith and Mrs Seymour.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from ...
Date: c1905
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369. Birch Mill and children taken in July 1905. The mill has since been demolished.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: July 1905
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370. Scything at Birch.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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371. Another view of Church Cottages, Birch, taken in 1905.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. ...
Date: 1905
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372. Birch Rectory - at the top of School Hill next to the Village Hall. Susan Millatt with the push chair. The children are from the Blok family from the ...
Date: cAugust 1969
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373. Mr & Mrs Sam Smith with granddaughter. Late 1930s ?
Date: c1938
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374. Co-op butchers delivery van at Hardys Green, Birch, 1939 or 1940.
L-R 1. Alice Wayman ?, 2. Roy Hattersley, 3. Mrs Birtha Smith, 4. Olive Hattesley. Roy ...
Date: c1940
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375. Olive and Roy Hattersley 1939 / 1940 at Hardys Green, Birch.
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376. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Cover page.
From Yardley Lane School Chingford, evacuated to Birch 3 September 1939.
Date: 3 September 1939
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377. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olve and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 1 of letter dated 11 April 1999.
"A very kind gentleman named Mr Andrews very kindly ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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378. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 2.
...
We were eventually rebilletted with the Smith's, Bertha and Sam, of Hardy's ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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379. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 3.
The outside toilet was halfway down a very long garden...
next door neighbour ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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380. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 4.
Date: 3 September 1939
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381. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 5.
Date: 3 September 1939
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382. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford.
Letter to Betty and Patrick Adkins accompanying the article, from Pam and Roy Hattersley
Date: 12 April 1999
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383. Birch School Ray House Winter Sports Team.
Was this taken the same time as ...
Date: April 1946
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384. Wychcombe in the Moor. It is not clear if this is relevant to Birch !
Date: 1956
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385. Birch Parish Magazine and Layer de la Haye.
January 1949 Burials at Layer Robert Charles Cansdale aged 72 years.
Layer de la Haye 5 May 1950 Buried ...
Date: January 1949
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386. A rural senior school garden. Photograph from an unknown educational publication.
View of Birch School garden in the 1940s, looking south. Gatehouse Farm ...
Date: 1940s
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387. Heckford Bridge, at Birch - a photo taken a very long time ago, a tranquil scene at a spot hardly recognisable today.
Pages from the Past, Essex County ...
Date: 3 May 1991
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388. It's a sunny day in January, so
A hunting we well go - children as well.
On Layer Breton Heath outside the Hare and Hounds.
Colchester Gazette.
Date: 8 January 1957
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389. Winter in the Village.
This Christmas card scene of Birch is a reminder that snow still has a picturesque quality as well as a nuisance value.
Date: 22 February 1963
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390. Birch was Best
Birch has been awarded the "Essex County Standard" plaque for the best kept small village in the Lexden and Winstree and Tendring districts ...
Date: 1968
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